Woodside and Sunnyside are two historically Irish neighborhoods in Queens, the most ethnically diverse borough in New York City. After our taco battle that pitted Brooklyn against Queens (Manhattan won, strangely enough), Carolyn and I decided on a new challenge: between the two great Irish neighborhoods of Woodside and Sunnyside, which has the best and most “authentic” Irish pub? We knew the task was going to be difficult. It was going to require drinking lots of beer and whiskey and eating pub food, but we bravely volunteered. We each picked three pubs (I picked three in Woodside and Carolyn picked three in Sunnyside), and out of those three we selected a winner for the other to try. In the end, could we agree on the best pub? The suspense is killing you, isn’t it? - JOSEPH MCKEOWN
Read more10 Great Things About Queens
While Manhattan and Brooklyn get much of the love and hype—we know already, Brooklyn, you are so cool—Queens is seriously one great borough. How great? Let us count ten ways that NYC’s largest and most diverse borough is a wonderful place to live or visit.
Read more10 Street Photographers of New York
We love photography. Weegee and André Kertész are two favorites and ever since we saw the photographs of Vivian Maier, the great street photographer who lived and worked in Chicago (the documentary about her is fascinating), we've been following more and more street photography on Tumblr, Instagram, and elsewhere on the web. Here we thought we'd take a look at ten photographers working today who focus on our great city of New York, which seems to provide endless inspiration.
Read moreBel18ve!
Roger Federer at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
After beating Frenchman Richard Gasquet, seventeen-time Grand Slam champion, Roger Federer, is set to face fellow countryman Stan Wawrinka today in an all-Swiss semi-final at the US Open. While I've enjoyed Stan's recent performances and wish him all the best, I am and always will be a Federer fan. Beautiful backhand!
Battle of the Boroughs: Tacos
New York City has a lot of restaurants. Some of them are pretty good; some of them are terrible. Since we love food and we love New York City, we’d thought it be interesting to have a food “borough off” between Brooklyn and Queens. The question: which borough has the better tacos? To achieve this important but ultimately impossible task (there are so many tacos to try even in just these two boroughs) Joseph and Carolyn sampled numerous places in their respective boroughs and out of these picked a winner for the other to try. Then they each decided: which is the best? The answer might surprise you.
Read moreUnisphere
The incredible view from Arthur Ashe Stadium of the 1964 World Fair's Unisphere and Observation Towers of the New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
Federer Under the Lights
Roger Federer playing Marinko Matosevic of Australia at Arthur Ashe Stadium during first round of US Open.